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Sandpaintings are very detailed and colorful and have designs made up of many subjects familiar to the Navajo people. Colors used in the sandpainting contain every color of the rainbow and are made from many different sources such as colored rocks, roots, flowers, sand, bark, ashes and cactus. For example, the colors green and blue can be made from mineral ores, red and orange from flower petals and yellow from cornmeal.